We,
no doubt about it, are central; we have invented much of what I
consider the most valuable aspects of these global alliances, but, of
course, we do not see it ourselves and we like to decrease our
protagonism by situating ourselves at the margins of a supposed
centrality that through this move gains the potential to reshape old
centralities. And tell me, my sweet friends, who if not feminists and
queers of various kinds have put desire and pleasure at the center of
politics? Who has transformed the way of taking the street and brought
the black block outfits back to their performative potential, who has
been responsible for breaking the discontinuities, public-private,
work-non work, etc. of traditional politics, who has reflected around
the question of autonomy, horizontality etc. - more than the feminist
movement? Who has brought the question of hybridity - sexual, ethnic...
- into the scene if not the queer and anti-racist movements? Who has
put their bodies against social death and invisibility more than those
migrants activists that are locking themselves up in churches all over
Europe?